I’m not opposed to linking to monsters here. I started a Sapphire serpent yesterday to get its map piece and realized sapphires are pretty popular. I only CTA’d it once but it was dead in about an hour. This might be a good place to liink to if lower levels need something to fight but need the monster to actually live long enough for them to get their achievement points at least.
Results are in for the Genesis fight:
[ol]
[li]You have been awarded with: Bramble Blade! [attack: 10 defense: 8][/li][li]You have been awarded with: Terra’s Heart! [attack: 6 defense: 8][/li][li]You have been awarded with: Stone Skin! [attack: 7 defense: 7][/li][li]You have been awarded with: Hands of Bounty! [attack: 10 defense: 9][/li][li]You have been awarded with: Rockthorn Bow! [attack: 12 defense: 11][/li][li]You have been awarded with: Genesis Sword! [attack: 20 defense: 30][/li][li]You have been awarded with: Terra’s Guard! [attack: 10 defense: 10][/li][li]You have been awarded with: Hellkite Minion! [attack: 32 defense: 27][/li][/ol]
All I’m missing is Plated Earth (armor) and Terra’s Crown. I"d suggest doing at least 2 million damage/fortifying to max out the loot drop. More would be better.
The Genesis Sword rocks, and beats Excalibur for top weapon. Woot! Better do some dueling now before everyone gets one.
I have to get back to my hydras for a while. 
I still don’t have the Death Touch Gauntlets so getting Hands of Bounty is a nice upgrade over the other current crop. Much more common than DTG as well.
Is that Keira’s loot? I still don’t have a full set either, nor her as a general. Someday, someday. There’s just so many achievements and then they add more stuff to get. Right now I"m concentrating on Hydras and I need to fight some serpents so I can get some more Atlantean or Valerian whoever-they-ares so I can do more missions in Atlantis. I have a quiet, unannounced Ancient Red serpent going right now I’m trying to stock up points on before releasing it to the untamed, non-fortifying masses.
Oops, I meant Lotus up there, but you can get Keira’s Demon Strength off Lotus too.
Demon Strength yes. Death Touch Gauntlets no. Items I’m missing to get a full set of the “power” equipment.
Wall of Flame to build the Dragon Helm (I’m trying to fight a gold dragon every few days, but never any luck.)
Death Touch Gauntlets (an epic drop from Lotus)
Genesis Sword for defense
Tempest Storm for offense
Since I don’t like bugging my family and friends with too many Castle Age notices, I just need to brag that I finally created the Helm of Dragon Power. A significant step up over my current helm.
It only took about 8 or more gold dragons not counting the other 3 dragons took forever to get their gear as well. Now it’s time to focus on Lotus and the Earth Elemental.
Damn, I guess I have another Facebook game now.
Congrats! The Wall of Fire was the problem, right? There’s another battle that will drop that now. Can’t remember which, but one of the epic fights. The helm should help hold off at least a few attackers.
My main weakness right now is my dueling ability. I was thinking about my demi-points and how I’m getting close to 3,000 for each type. That’s 15,000 demi-points which would have gotten me Moonfall Amulet and Sword of Vengeance by now, damn it. I’ve decided to concentrate on Aurora from now on. All the items I’ve gotten so far are mostly being given away as battle drops now anyway. I need some stronger stuff.
Deathrune Raid drops both the Wall of Fire and the Dragon Talon.
I haven’t got to the gauntlet of crazy attackers yet. Either people skip right by me or I never appear on the battle page. I’m only Rank 10 Lieutenant Commander and everyone I fight is lower level and/or has less army. It’s time for me to start moving up.
BTW have you heard about BSI (Battle Strength Index)? I only heard about it yesterday. It’s a way to measure the serious PvP players. You add your attack and defense and divide by your level. A good index is around 5. Mine is only 4, but I still win most duels anyways.
I’m not going to worry about my BSI at this point. Dueling is my weak point but it’s also the least interesting to me. It doesn’t take much work to find someone who’s leveled up by invading with their big ol’ army and left themselves weak on dueling. Getting the “win 1000 duels” will probably be one of the last achievements I go for. As it is, I just do it a little here and there between other achievements. It can be done; it’s just not that fun.
I wish I could get the Moonfall Amulet or something as good some other way. It feels like a waste driving my health up so much just to get it. I"d much rather be pursuing attack, defense, energy and stamina demi-power blessings.
Can I vent? I hate, hate, hate schmucks who jump into battles that require fortifying and just blow all their stam on it, driving the defense down to crap, making everyone’s attacks almost useless. Right now I’m fighting Ancient Red serpents to get the last damn map piece and I"m so sick of blowing all my energy to support everyone else’s impotent stamina attacks. People like hitting with 25% of their power or something? Grrr. If people would fortify the battle would take half as long. Why don’t people get that? Grrr again. I’ll be glad when I get the last map piece. Then I just need to figure out which serpent gives up the most Atlantean Archers I need for the Atlantis quests. The Ancient Reds aren’t giving any up. I get lots of those basically useless Spartans or whatever they are.
Check out the Earth Elemental battle for your map piece as well. I think it drops 2 of the set.
I’ve only done the first of the Atlantis quests. They take awhile to do since they require 22-38 energy per quest. There’s no items or gifts from completing them, only the skill points. Instead, I’m trying to finish up all the other quests first and just leave those for later. I do understand the desire to get Nautica. Not a great general, but she still adds her stats for invasions.
As for the Atlantean Archers, you only need 8 to complete 4 of the 5 quests. How many do you have right now?
The Castle Age wiki isn’t always complete, but according to them, the Deathrune Siege can drop map pieces 3 & 4. I can’t find anything that drops #1 except the Ancient Red serpent. If you find differently, let me know!
One thing I"ve noticed is lower level players seem to have it a lot easier. My older account (cough, cough) has a tougher time getting drops and my lower level account will get things like Keira’s soul, map pieces etc. on first tries at them. That’s actually how Lev Drakon came to be a Castle Age account - I needed a lower level player to summon Emeralds, etc. Those days are gone now though, Lev just jumped over level 90.
You’re right. I got my recent additions mixed up. Good luck! I know it took me a lot of battles to finally get piece 3 from the Emerald Serpent. At least the Ancient Serpent is one that people always request help. Emeralds died way too fast, sometimes less than 5 minutes. I hovered over the Sea Serpent Facebook group just waiting for a new one to drop.
Just got the map piece I needed! I can afford Nautica, so she’ll be a welcome addition. I’m still banging out all the demi-quests, so working through Atlantis will be slow going, and it doesn’t look like there’s anything critical I need to get there. It just bugged me not having Atlantis open.
Where is a good Guide to Castle Age? Wikipedia? I’m still a bit confused on some of the game aspects like Alchemy…
Castle Age Forums http://www.castleageforums.com/cforum/index.php isn’t bad. Also, the Castle Age Wiki http://castleage.wikidot.com/ has good info.
You’ll find a lot of people have their style of game play and swear by it, be it all energy, all defense, all attack, all stamina, etc. You kind of have to play a while and figure out what you enjoy the most.
What would you like to know about alchemy? You go around collecting the pieces you need and then click “combine” or “summon” or whatever it is. Gifting is a big part of the game, and if you consider it that way, then gifts will get you using alchemy a lot. I already got my “use alchemy 100 times” achievement.
The current objects people are gifting right now are the earth pieces, which when combined make an Earth Orb, an item with 3 attack and 4 defense, for a total of 7. Not really that great, but you need at least two of them to summon Genesis. I wouldn’t bother summoning anything big to fight myself, as there are plenty of other people summoning them all over the place and you end up with too many monsters to fight and too few people to fight them.
The gift items you combine into weapons and items used to all total 10, in some combination of attack/defense. The newer items total 7, which isn’t as good. I concentrate on Poseidon’s Horn, Morning Star, Frost Tear Dagger, Whisper Bow, and Serpentine Shield, all 10’s. Poseidon’s Horn and Serpentine Shields are also drops during certain battles, and are easier to accumulate that way than gifting back and forth.
My two cents.
For the high level players, they have just unlocked the Underworld stage of quests with Skaar Deathrune as the final boss. But better than that: they have added a large portion of epic level gear that you need to buy to do the quests. These items become must haves for serious PvP players because it significantly ups the strength of your whole army.
EXCEPT they are ridiculously expensive and INCREASE incrementally as you purchase. I had 40 billion in the bank and it wiped out most of that just to buy the items needed for the quests. Any significant buying to equip a full-sized army would be done by people much higher level than me.
Check it out.
I just saw a Skaar fight a few minutes ago and jumped in. Off to see what else is new.
Wow, you know what really pisses me off? I just sold off 200 dragons and phoenixes figuring I wouldn’t need them for a long time. Oh well, at this rate, it’s still going to be a long time before I have to buy them back.